(November 23, 1964)
To the Ninth Congress of the Communist Party of Japan
Dear Comrades:
The Ninth Congress of the Communist Party of Japan, of great historical significance, has been victoriously convened.
The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, on behalf of all members of the Communist Party of China and the 650 million Chinese people, extends warm fraternal congratulations to your Party Congress, and through your Congress, extends the most cordial and sublime respect to the fraternal Communist Party of Japan and to the great Japanese people in struggle.
The Communist Party of Japan is a militant and strong vanguard of the Japanese proletariat, a loyal defender of the interests of the Japanese people, and a shock force in the international communist movement armed with the thought of Marxism-Leninism.
The Communist Party of Japan creatively combines the universal truth of Marxism-Leninism with the concrete conditions of Japan, holds high the revolutionary banner of opposing American imperialism and Japanese monopoly capital, and guides the Japanese people's revolutionary struggle to advance victoriously.
In recent years, under the leadership and encouragement of the Communist Party of Japan, the Japanese people have continuously launched heroic struggles against American imperialism and the reactionaries with a powerful momentum. The Communist Party of Japan and the Japanese people stand heroically at the forefront of the struggle against American imperialism, making great contributions to peace in Asia and the world. The development of the Japanese people's revolutionary struggle is a great encouragement to the people of Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the revolutionary people of the whole world.

The Communist Party of Japan has always been faithful to the principles of Marxism-Leninism and proletarian internationalism, and has always strived to safeguard the unity of the international communist movement.
The Communist Party of Japan adheres to the revolutionary principles of the 1957 Declaration and the 1960 Statement, resolutely opposes revisionism, the main danger in the international communist movement, and opposes dogmatism, making positive contributions to defending the purity of Marxism-Leninism and developing the theory of Marxism-Leninism.
The Communist Party of China and the Communist Party of Japan, the Chinese people and the Japanese people, have forged a deep fighting friendship in the long-term common struggle against common enemies. Our two parties and the people of our two countries have consistently supported and encouraged each other in the common struggle.
The Communist Party of Japan has made outstanding contributions to the cause of strengthening the friendship and unity between the Chinese and Japanese people.
The Communist Party of Japan and the Japanese people can be deeply convinced that the Communist Party of China and the Chinese people will stand firmly on your side and support your great and just struggle.
We firmly believe that under the leadership and encouragement of the Communist Party of Japan, the people of all strata in Japan will unite more strongly and more widely, and the national democratic united front of Japan will be further expanded and developed. The revolutionary cause of the Japanese people will surely achieve new and great victories. An independent, democratic, peaceful, neutral, and prosperous Japan must be realized.
I wish the Ninth Congress of the Communist Party of Japan success!
Long live the glorious, great, and heroic Communist Party of Japan!
Mao Zedong, Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China
November 23, 1964

Instructions, Revisions, and Letters Regarding Sixteen Poems to Hu Qiaomu [1]
(November 23, December 2, 30, 1964)
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Basically still applicable.
III
Ten thousand *li* of wind and clouds converge, only one uniform is needed.
Buried deep in blue blood.
First test of sharpness.
Xi Shi is ashamed of her half-sullied face.
IV
Who will join me, dancing with the Heaven-reliant long sword, to sweep away this absurdity!
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Hangzhou and other places, walking near the suburbs, everywhere neighbors with ghosts, hundreds of years still difficult to sweep away. Today, merely digging up a few piles of rotten bones, and thinking the problem is solved, is too underestimating the enemy, and does not conform to the facts, so it is not appropriate to add that explanation. As for temples, not even one has been touched.
VI
The scene and mood are different tonight, the heavenly wind carries the sea tide.
Heroes do not recognize the word "difficult."
Auspicious air fills the heavens and the earth.
VII
No need to add a note, readers will not misunderstand.
VIII
The devil falls, the song of triumph is high, the long sky also howls with the wind.
IX
Sparks of fire spread eastward, igniting the plains in this sunlight and sky.
Rejoice in the former Red Land,
Comrades-in-arms form ranks.
Life is not a few days' king.
The North Star looks down.
Winds and rains from all directions.
Must strike the boat together, must break the waves, listen to the thunder roar.
Eyes drunk with jade towers, spirit soars to jade palaces.
Suddenly fire flies, beams fall.
Ten thousand years of filth.
Boiling each other like captives.
Instructions, Revisions, and Letters Regarding Sixteen Poems to Hu Qiaomu
The disease is serious, new soup and old medicine, how can it be boiled so much? Hate parting and seeking fright, swallowing sounds and trees falling, calling out to old companions. Fortunately, the good teacher has three paths, the long serpent seals the east, making a demon dance.
Boiling each other like captives.
Manage fangs and claws.
Move rivers and mountains.
The evil atmosphere is initially swept away.
X
Come and shake the empty snow waves, a sky full of hail and rain, point to the collapsing iceberg!
XI
This is just a beginning.
XII
To Comrade Wu Lengxi [1] of the *People's Daily*:
Please publish it on the New Year (January 1), I hope.
This short letter should not be published.
Mao Zedong
December 30th
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To Comrade Liu Baiyu [2] of *People's Literature*:
This document has been sent to the *People's Daily* for publication on January 1, you can reprint it.
This short letter should not be published.
Mao Zedong
December 30th
Instructions, Revisions, and Letters Regarding Sixteen Poems to Hu Qiaomu
Mao Zedong's handwritten revisions and annotations to Hu Qiaomu's manuscript of *Tune: Qin Yuan Chun - Reflections on Hangzhou*.

--- Notes

The first item in this collection is Mao Zedong's addition to Hu Qiaomu's, Alternate Secretary of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee and Deputy Director of the Propaganda Department of the CPC Central Committee, letter of October 25, 1964 (later changed to December 5) to the editorial department of the *People's Daily* requesting the publication of several poems. Items two through ten in this collection are Mao Zedong's instructions and revisions to Hu Qiaomu's sixteen poems, with the text typeset in Song typeface being the text rewritten by Mao Zedong. In addition, Mao Zedong made individual textual revisions. Item eleven in this collection is Mao Zedong's instruction written on Hu Qiaomu's letter to him of December 2. Items twelve and thirteen in this collection are two letters written by Mao Zedong for the publication of Hu Qiaomu's *Sixteen Poems*. *Sixteen Poems* was published in the January 1, 1965 issue of the *People's Daily* and the January 1965 issue of *People's Literature*.


In his letter to the editorial department of the *People's Daily*, Hu Qiaomu said: "The poem on Hangzhou alludes to the Cultural Revolution. However, there are still so many temples and graves in the country, poisoning the masses, and it is felt that they must be further attacked. What is gratifying is that the piles of graves in the Gushan area of Hangzhou, after heated discussions by the broad masses and the decision of the leadership, have been relocated and destroyed according to the circumstances on December 2. Various reactionary, feudal, superstitious, and worthless buildings and furnishings in the West Lake scenic area are also being systematically cleaned up and transformed. Some of the words in the poem are now basically inapplicable to Hangzhou." Mao Zedong wrote this instruction in response to the last sentence.
[2]
This is a revision to the poem *Tune: Shui Diao Ge Tou - Notes on National Day Night*, the original text being "Ten thousand *li* of a thousand *jin* burden, without a single furrowed brow."
[3]
These are revisions to the poem *Tune: Qin Yuan Chun - Reflections on Hangzhou*, the original texts being "Buried deep in blood and tears," "Small test of sharpness," "Xi Shi is still ashamed of her half-sullied face," "Heaven joins me, dancing with a roaring and strange sword, to sweep away your living light!"


[1] This instruction was written next to the poem *Tune: Qin Yuan Chun - Reflections on Hangzhou*.
[2] These are revisions to the second poem of *Tune: Pu Sa Man - Atomic Bomb Explosion on October 16, 1964*, the original texts being "The scenery is different tonight, a long song of heroic spirit," "This life does not understand the word 'difficult'," "The heavens and the earth are filled with auspicious air." The original title of this poem was "China's Atomic Bomb Explosion," Mao Zedong changed it to the current title.
[3] Hu Qiaomu added a note next to the line "Raise the rosy flag across the four seas, heroic ambition startles a thousand years: May [we] destroy [nuclear weapons] together with the fog, dissolve into the light of the sun and moon!" in the fourth poem of *Tune: Pu Sa Man - Atomic Bomb Explosion on October 16, 1964*: "The phrase 'May [we] destroy [nuclear weapons] together with the fog' means that we advocate destroying our nuclear weapons together with the imperialists' nuclear weapons. It cannot be interpreted otherwise." Mao Zedong wrote this note after reading it.


[1] This is a revision to the fifth poem of *Tune: Pu Sa Man - Atomic Bomb Explosion on October 16, 1964*, the original text being "The devil is exhausted, the song of triumph ceases, Nirvana flows for ten thousand *li*."
[2] These are Mao Zedong's revisions to the first four poems of *Tune: Shui Long Yin*, the original texts being: "In the past, sparks of fire spread eastward, how could one expect this sunlight and sky," "Rejoice in the green shade for a thousand *li*, formerly red earth," "Vitality is strong," "The North Star is looked up to together," "Fair weather and foul from all directions," "But strike the boat together, must break the waves, listen to the thunder roar," "Eyes drunk with dry pearls, soul startled to nine deaths," "Suddenly fire flies, beams are firm," "Hundred years of filth," "Boiling each other like a cauldron."


[1] This is Mao Zedong's revision to the fifth poem of *Tune: Shui Long Yin*. When published, this section was further changed to: "The disease is serious, new soup and old medicine, how can it be boiled so much? Hate parting and seeking fright, swallowing sounds and trees falling, calling out to old companions. See the later cart retracing the same path, the city of sorrow looks in all directions, all red flags dance."
[2] These are revisions to the seventh poem of *Tune: Shui Long Yin*, the original texts being: "Punish fangs and claws," "Move mountains and rivers," "The evil atmosphere is directly swept away," "Riding the fierce waves shaking the empty space, rushing forward and surging backward, point to the collapsing iceberg!"
[3] In his letter to Mao Zedong on December 2, Hu Qiaomu said that the poem *Tune: Qin Yuan Chun* had been shown to Lin Hujia and Chen Bing here (referring to Hangzhou). Later, he discussed the opinions raised in it with Huo Shilian and Cao Xiangren, and obtained their complete agreement. The Provincial Party Committee has decided to transform the West Lake scenic area. The *Zhejiang Daily* has published more than a dozen letters from readers, demanding that the scenic area also break with the old and establish the new, thoroughly rectify, and clean up things like the so-called Su Xiaoxiao's tomb that poison the masses. This is a proposition that you put forward many years ago, and it is finally hoped that it will be realized in the new upsurge of the socialist revolution, so I am reporting it here in passing. Mao Zedong wrote this instruction next to this passage.


[1] Wu Lengxi was then the Director of the Xinhua News Agency and the Editor-in-Chief of the *People's Daily*.
[2] Liu Baiyu was then the Vice Chairman of the Chinese Writers Association.